Populism is a concept that is currently in vogue among political commentators and, more
often than not, used pejoratively. The phenomenon of populism is typically seen as …

How does culture articulate, frame, organise and produce stories about social class and
class difference? What do these stories tell us about contemporary models of success …

Drawing on a mixed research methodology with a strong qualitative character, this book
traces the political impact of the British National Party in the UK, the Front National in France …

In this paper, critical discursive psychology is used to analyse the Islamophobic discourse by
the far‐right party Britain First in its “solidarity patrol” video. Britain First patrolled in Golders …

This timely intervention exposes the euphemized language of the extreme right as a
deceptive attempt to secure greater influence over public policy. Since the end of World War …

This survey article deals with a network that can be loosely described as the “counter‐jihad
movement”(CJM). CJM activists are a loose collection of bloggers, political parties, street …

Since Nick Griffin's appointment as chairman of the far-right British National Party (BNP) in
1999, the party has undergone a drastic makeover in terms of the language it employs in the …

The ascent to power of Margaret Thatcher in 1979 was widely seen as sounding a death-
knell for far-right extremism in Britain. As far-right parties began to make significant gains …

Two complementary explanations have been offered by social psychologists to account for
the universal hold of national identity, first that national identity is ideologically assumed, as …

In this chapter I provide a reflective account of my doctoral research on the electoral rise and
fall of the British National Party (BNP)–a party with its ideological and organizational origins …